Hera does join him, her own hands folded behind her back as she approaches his desk.

"A distress signal?" she asks, though it's the only thing she says before the message ends. Then -

"They don't have to be locals. Maybe deep space runners who made a navigational error."

She leaves unsaid that there are many legitimate, and not so legitimate, reasons to fly deep space in such a way that would leave one stranded in an otherwise uninhabited system.